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I think it is pathetic that Gypsy Rose Lee's younger sister, June Havoc, said publicly that her mother was crazy and topping that the author of this article says that today there would be help for her. We get smaller and smaller and smaller.

Because there's a difference between living on the edge - which is the price for what Gypsy Rose Lee did, she created and paid the price for creating a successful persona - and being crazy. It's a belittlement, the whole therapy crazy industry.

The bare facts of the mother's life make her sound pretty ghastly. But both her daughters reached a measure of fame and success. Maybe she had some other, better qualities that the children glommed onto and that are now lost in the wash. At any rate, the mother, in her incarnation as the mother in Gypsy, is now the archetype for all stage mothers and will be famous forever......Victor Borge used a concert recital as the occasion of his comic patter. Was he using a variant of Gypsy's act? Was she using a variant of W.C. Fields act as clumsy juggler? Can Adam Sandler reignite his career by telling jokes while doing a lap dance?